Winterize Your Skin

Has the winter months left you brittle? Your hair, skin and even those precious lips that are …dry and chapped. With such extreme weather conditions, I’d say they’ve left you cracked up–literally. I’d say your skin needs some TLC: Tender – Lotion – Care 🙂

First let’s begin with your beautiful face; Use a creamy cleansing base that won’t compromise your skin’s hydrolipid barrier like most foaming cleansers. Your skin depends on this barrier to retain water; it is the skin’s waterproof seal that was never meant to be broken. However, mainstream skin-care regimens take care of that by destroying it. A non-abrasive creamy gentle cleanser like Mychelle Honeydew made honey enzymes to dissolve and soften dead skin cells, chlorophyll, sea weed, and algae to provide nutrients while cleansing.
Tip: Give your skin a rest from exfoliation, cut back to once a week.

It’s time to up the moisture content of your morning and night routine and winterize the stratum corneum (the outer layer of your skin). Lotus Moon Cherry Blossom Healing Soothe (lotusmoon.biz) is formulated with Willowherb extract that can help reduce redness and inflammation. Plus it has horse chestnut and butcher’s broom extracts that strengthen capillary walls to support skin. If you are suffering from severe skin conditions or eczema, I would suggest Coconut Clean’s Healing Balm. It contains Kamani oil from Hawaii; an amazing traditional natural skin healing and rejuvenating herbal oil with anti-neuralgic, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial & antioxidant properties.

Teresa Neumann the owner of Coconut Clean, gets the oil directly from a friend who grows it and processes it on the Big Island.

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Tip: wear gloves at night and use pumpkin repair hand lotion by Dessert essence. Wake up with softer more beautiful hands.

Dry Skin Eliminator
If the weather has kept you inside, you may like a homemade treatment mask. I call this the dry skin terminator.

Combine ingredients in a bowl, whisk together, then spread mixture over face, neck, and top of hands. Relax for 15 minutes and rinse with tepid water. (You may not want to answer the phone with this mask on – It’s very messy.)

Hairapy
We must not forget about your hair! Due to the seasons changing, your hair can become brittle and in need of moisture. I tried this pre-shampoo hair treatment by Burt’s Bees and loved the way it made my hair glossy and soft. Use one to two teaspoons of the Avocado Butter Hair Treatment (www.burtsbees.com) and leave on for 15 minutes. I recommend using a wide-tooth comb to pull product through hair for more even application.

DIY – mash up half of an avocado and apply to hair. Leave on for 10-15 min.

Luxury Bath
While you have either mask on or both, why not soak your body in a milk bath? Cleopatra was known for this bath, and the results are ever so nice.

Take this quite time to enjoy and relax with a hot cup of chamomile tea and reflect on all the great moments and blessings God has done in your life this past year. God created beauty in all things; YOU are beautiful and wonderfully created. How great is our God to create extravagant blueprints of our faces, bodies, and the world. He is the greatest Architect, the Great I AM!

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But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. ~ John 10:2-4

“Know his voice”… It’s at this point many of us get bogged down, confused , or even fearful ~ feeling and thinking, “But I Don’t know His voice!”
It’s also at this point that we can and should take a deep breath if necessary, relax, and be at peace, resting in and trusting our Good Shepherd! Our ability to follow Him does not rest on us alone because our Good Shepherd will Not fail us or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5), nor will He suffer us to be lost! (Matthew 18:12, Luke 15:4)

The verse cited at the beginning says He calls us “by name”. Often in the trials and business of life ~ and particularly, even, in the midst of our service ~ it’s easy to lose track of the Reality that we are uniquely and individually loved by God Himself! (Matt. 10:30,
Lk 12:7) He sees us, Knows us, and Loves us deeply!
(1 Corinthians 13: 12)

1 Cor. 13 also tells us that love never fails (v. 8) and 1 John tells us that God is love (4:8), so here again are Truths we can rely on ~ and rest in, and be at peace in!

This isn’t to say there aren’t things we can do to help ourselves be familiar with His voice. We already know what those things are and the enemy of our souls works hard to both keep us from them, and then turns to accuse and berate us for not pursuing those thing “enough”. Let’s just raise a shield of faith stamped with Rom. 8:1 against the accusations of the enemy and turn our face to the Sun of Righteousness instead. (Malachi 4:2) Then let us follow follow our Good Shepherd in peace and trust as He leads us day by day. (Matt. 6:34)